WST - Namelcatching Well Hindmarsh, Western Australia, Australia
By WheatbeltScience on 10-Jul-17. Waypoint GC7934A

Full time Nomads, travelling around Australia since 2014. Back in WA to visit family and work Grain Harvest. Currently staying in Goomalling while we wait for the crops to be ready. [^] Today we headed out to explore Dowerin, Minnivale and Wyalkatchem using Geocaching as a guide.TFTC WheatbeltScience

Thanks for the cache. Amazing bit of history.

WA Big Trip Winter 2024. Day 71 - Goomalling to Wyalkatchem via Dowerin. I had a steady preparation for the day and got on the road on a cloudy and windy day. I did a few caches along the road to Dowerin and stopped at the cemetery before catching up with Sacada and Aquillus at Dowerin. There were some good caches around town and even an open shop for morning tea. Next was the drive to Wyalkatchem where I go to visit two old wells, one still sharp and deep with water in it. The Welcome to Wyalkatchem art is amazing. Once I set up at the caravan park, it rained very steadily, so I stayed inside for the afternoon. Off to Westonia tomorrow with three new counties to visit.The well here was vary impressive. It has a huge cage over it and I am sure I would not like to fall in. Lots of water, but I have no idea how deep. The cache was found nearby and I headed back to the car.Thanks for the cache WheatbeltScience48327.10 TNLNVisited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & Flash Mob XII A#319**Albida**

This took a while, but geowife to the rescue.TFTC.

The well is closed so you can not get to it on a trail

0blong was here. Nice little cache. Cheers

TFTCAlphabet Bus and Big George

TFTCAlphabet Bus and Big George

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NEF here on a little caching jaunt with Swoosh0375. TFTC WheatbeltScience.

Heading home after a few days in the wheatbelt with BJA3.Cache found in good condition with no issues. Thanks for placing this hide for us and others to enjoy finding!

Caching with Team Barritts on the Koorda GIFF weekend getaway.Thanks to all the CO's for placing & maintaining their hides and bringing us to some fantastic new spots!

Driving back to Perth from an overnighter in Koorda for the 2023 GIFF. Tftc

Walked through the snake infested grass only to arrive at gz and find a road. TFTC nice hide.

Headed out super early to pick up a pile of caches that had come out since we were last up this way. Visited some very interesting locations along the way and all caches were found with a few tricky ones that took a bit of searching. Thanks to all the CO,S for placing these caches.

Wow... that's what they used to look like. It's all a bit fenced off as one side of the well has started to undercut but cache was quickly found. Then I dropped the top. Eek. Fortunately we carry a metal detector and soon had it reunited with the rest of the cache. Tftc

Found on my second try for this one on a lovely day for caching like the history of the area.
TFTC

Late log as catching up on a fee missed logs from our by weekend trip

Found on a trip to the west from South Australia., visiting friends and relatives, checking out the sites and finding caches of interest along the way.

The weather has been really good since I headed north of Perth. There has been no rain and the winds haven’t been too bad. Makes a welcome change from the previous 3 weeks when I was constantly beating my way into strong winds and it rained almost every night! I hope it holds out for the next couple of weeks as I head south end east on my way home.

The cache was found at good coordinates and is in good condition. Nice hide too!

Thanks WheatbeltScience for the cache. A favourite point from me too for showing me an interesting spot I’d have not otherwise known about.

We've visited a lot of wells over the past few days but I think this one was most impressive. Interesting to read about the history of the area. TFTC WheatbeltScience

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Cool hide! Nice to see this hidden wonder too! TFTC!

One of the best well examples I have seen
Unfortunately the cache eluded me.

Found a few weeks ago on my way home from Mukinbudin just getting around to logging now. Thanks

Found it. TFTC WheatbeltScience. Quick find here today. Replaced as found

Wandering this area, signed the log as EV and thanks for the cache and hunt

Stopped through town after the event. Thanks for the hide.

Out in the Wheatbelt again for the second consecutive weekend. This weekend the plan was to attack a number of towns in the North Eastern Wheatbelt and attend the FOTT event in Minnivale. It was a terrific weekend. Thank you to all the COs involved in providing entertainment this weekend.

A very cool spot that otherwise would have been driven past at 110kmh! For future finders, there is a track in from the road to Minnivale. Cheers WheatbeltScience!

Spent last night in minivale and decided to head out today with Allied_OZ, Granett and SVKR_WA for a day grabbing some nearby caches. Plan initially was Dowerin, then Wyalkatchem then wherever. Sir Fancy and Cirrus_WA joined us for the morning as well.


Many thanks to WheatbeltScience for placing and maintaining WST - Namelcatching Well. I was here at 7:51 am on Saturday and this is my find 9637.
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Destination Minnivale and what has become a tradition of sorts... BYO Marshmallows number V. Some fun with friends around a camp fire sharing some drinks, some hint, some tall stories and plenty of laughs.

Day two off with 3 car out on the road picking up caches here and there.
I'm with Kyzabra, the fitzys, Granett, Cirrus_WA, SVKR and sir fancy

The plan today is loose, no real plan just Caching with mates.

Quick find with the group

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Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache WheatbeltScience you help make this game what it is.

AlliedOz

Out caching with Granett, Kyzabra, AlliedOz, Sir Fancy, Cirrus, and SVKR_WA after staying at the nearby byo marshmallows event.

Thanks for the hide and bringing us to this spot.

You can still drive to this one. We changed the log book while here as it was full.

Fun little drive down the track, went to obvious place first then checked gps

This is my 865 find.
Thank you WheatbeltScience for placing and maintaining this cache.



Geology rocks but Geography is where it’s at!

Last cache for today and we parked up and slowly made our way through the scrub and wildflowers.
Once we got to GZ the cache was found quickly. We spent some time checking out the well before heading a few minutes up the road to set up camp.
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Arranged an extra leave pass day from the boss to be able to head out to the Marshmallow event in Minnivale for a couple of nights.
Teamed up SirFancy for the drive and slowly made our way out stoping for caches along the way.
There were a couple of target caches we were chasing in Ellenbrook and Dowerin.
We got to the campsite at 3:30, set up the tents and joined fellowship for the evening.
A great start to the weekend with 12 finds and 11 Labs.
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Thanks WheatbeltScience for placing this cache for me to find, this is find number 3362 for me.

Nice quick find. Out and about on our 2nd day of a nine day adventure TFTC

Interesting stop on the road.

After the Northam GG series, I went driving out to Goomalling, Dowerin, Cunderdin and Meckering.

What a massive well! The falling in the well risk sign was a bit much. The cage enveloping the well was impressive. I parked on the road and walked in.

TFTC WST

On a road trip up to the Mid West. Today, we drove to Dowerin, Cadoux, down to Cunderdin and on to Quairading where we stopped for the night. We enjoyed the variety of hides, particularly those that were placed on or near signs that depicted the history of the area. Thank you to all the CO's for placing and maintaining these caches for our enjoyment.
Find #4030 for us today.

Very sneaky & clever. That tested us but we found it. Thanks for getting us off the main road.

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Crafty

Has to park a bit up the road at the track and walk in. Well worth the visit. Very well made well Without caching we would never have known this little gem of history was here. DPAW have a information sign at the well but no directional signage into it. A pity this little bit of history isn’t printed better. Thanks for bringing us here.

We enjoyed the walk in on the track. Lots of flowers out already. TFTC

Found. Really nice place. Thanks for bringing us here.

We are travelling around the wheatbelt, this is our last day and we are on our way home.
I didn't see the waypoint for the track so I ended up walking in from the road.
It was a quick find once I was there.

This was find number 4 for the day.
TFTC WheatbeltScience

Very cool spot! Thanks for leading us here! Tftc

Well well well ... I never knew this existed. Thanks for the history and for bringing me here.

Out today finding some caches WheatbeltSciencei found your cache WST - Namelcatching Well this is find number 1583 for me TFTH

Making the most of the public holiday today with Itskate and B12. Travelled around 670km and picked up one FTF for the day.

The weather was simply amazing and great to see a bit of water on the ground after the last week of rain.

Thanks to all the CO’s for your placement of these caches bringing me to some interesting places.

Looking forward to seeing you at WAGB Albany during the WA day long weekend.

Only one more cache in the Wheatbelt science trail to go and we’ve completed it.

Decided on a big public holiday run out to the Wheatbelt region of WA to finish up a great weekend of geocaching.

Started off with a FTF in Northam, which had surprisingly been left unfound for several days and ended up travelling 700 odd kilometres for the day throughout the region.

A great day out with Cravo10 and it’sKate.

Thanks to the local COs for their hides.

Out and about in the Central Wheatbelt area this weekend on a mission to grab some missing LGA's. After 1200 odd K's, 43 finds, a few DNF's and two nights under the stars, it was mission accomplished.

Parked very close to GZ here but took a while before I spotted the tricky little sucker. First cache in the Dowerin LGA so have a favourite for that.

WheatbeltScience I found your cache at 4:43pm, this was the 15th of 15 finds for me today and brings my total find count to 5875. The cache was in good order and I replaced it as found.

SLTFTC

After two surgeries in the last two months, then getting bad news about more plus getting things done at home I thought it was time for a short getaway to recharge the mind so Mr dimor chose the location for a change and that happened to be Dowerin for three nights

Today was our day to 'spread our wings' a little and head to Wylie to cache.

I did think of walking to this one but with having a few problems managing that little essential activity at times and as Mr dimor doesn't mind the odd scratch on the LC so we drove up to the well.
Ants are very friendly here

TFTC

Awesome spot!!

This weekend has been some time in the planning and we were heading up this way to drive the Wheatbelt Way Trail and collect geocaches along the route. We also had GCA caches, Waymarks and Sighters on the radar which should break up the trip nicely. We had no set plans for accommodation and we decided that we would see where we ended up each day to set up camp. This cache was one that we targeted on our mini adventure. Cheers and TFTC.

G’day there WheatbeltScience, I was in this area today and found your cache WST - Namelcatching Well GC7934A. I added my name to the log book at 9:35 am on 28 September 2019. A huge thanks to you for placing this cache here for us (and others) to find!

This cache find brings our total find count to 10958. Woohoo!!

Out n bout tracking down some more WST caches & learning some more about our adopted country in the process. TFTC

Great cache, nifty hiding spot. Nice to see the well, very well hidden off the track

Very nice hide. I ferreting location. Tftc

After a road stop look and see we decided the terrain was a bit rugged to bash through 100m so we went up to catch a different find but it got the better of us and we back tracked and so glad that we did. A very easy trek from the roadside to see what had us in awe. A bit of look around and down the gap we found it in great condition

Thank you for bringing us to this interesting place.
On a little road trip gathering some LGAs.
TFTC WheatbeltScience this is find #6928 for us.

Hi there WheatbeltScience.

We found your cache **"WST - Namelcatching Well"** at 11:58:00 AM today. (This makes our find count 22327).

We are heading from SA to WAGB in Northam & we stopped off in Dowering on the way through. Now that we've settled in a nearby caravan park we have taken the opportunity to head out and find some of the caches we had couldn't have done with a caravan in tow.

We found 10 caches today & DNF'd 2. Thanks for placing this cache here, without geocaching as our guide we would never have found so many interesting places on our nomadic travels around Australia.

**Coordinate Accuracy:** We found the cache around 3m from where the GPS said we should be looking.
**Cache Condition:** The container and log book are in good shape.
**Took:** Nothing.
**Left:** Nothing.

Thanks for the hunt today,

Regards

Ian & Penny.

Tftc

TFTC

A clever hide, TFTC

TFTC We have visited quite a few of the wells in the area but did not know this one existed. Thank you for bringing us here.

Very clever hide

Well, well, well.. another piece of interesting history you have brought me to
We visited the other one nearby back in August 2017, so thanks for showing us another.
Managed to carefuly drive the Captiva to this one without so much as a scratch .. gotta be happy with that.
TFTC WheatbeltScience

Awesome thanks. They did it hard back then.

Heading to Merredin via Koorda. Great hide and another piece of history learned. Thanks WST

Found on a trip up north, enjoying the warmer weather.
TFTC

We had previously completed an archived cache at this sight but the cover and info board were new! Thanks for bringing us back here for another visit!

An interesting find with a lot of history around this area. Found this after having morning tea at Minnivale.
Thanks for sharing.
TFTC

Day 73 of our 366 day straight challenge. Homeward bound from a weekend at Wyalkatchem so breaking up the drive with some caches. As you do

Nice little spot for a cache, never wpuld have stopped here otherwise. Nice easy find by hubby, log signed and cache replaced as found. TFTC

We had a free day and the weather was perfect so decided on a short caching trip to Koorda. Thanks for the cache WheatbeltSciencee we had fun looking for it.

TFTH

Out for a couple of days caching, with the Geoson in the northern wheatbelt. Hopefully knocking off a few more lga's off the list.

Despite the weather, some fantastic finds and a few dnf's were had.

A big thanks to all the co's for placing and maintaining these hide. Great work showing off some real gems of the wheatbelt.

Good Friday sees me heading into the northern wheatbelt to clear out a few caches and cross off another 5 LGAs.

Headed out early and headed for Goomalling for the first stop. Then headed further north.

Parked on the side of the road and followed a well worn track right to GZ. Made the quick find.

WheatbeltScience SVKR_WA found your cache on 30 Mar 2018 at 16:04:50.

The log was signed and the cache replaced.

This find brings my find count to 2933

Thanks for placing this cache and contributing to this great game

Sneaky

Found this cache on our way to the OZ Geo Muster at Morisset NSW.

this one took a while to spot, tricky little devil. The well held water at a much higher level than I was expecting, very interesting.

Ian & Sue - Team Pathfinder uses T.P. to sign smaller logs.

Well it’s now day 15 of our Northern adventure , now more Eastern adventure as we head south of the Great Eastern Hwy with m4yb, Jonathan the camper trailer and Max the GeoUte.
Out for a day in this nice area.
Well done guys very sneaky hide indeed
Thanks for the smiley WheatbeltScience

Day 15 of our Adventure to the northern Goldfields and now in the Wheatbelt. After a quiet night on the farm at Wyalkatchem, we are exploring the surrounding towns.
Second find on the way to Dowerin. Cache spotted by megawat60 but it took a joint effort to retrieve it. Interesting well and the water level quite high. TFTC.

Took us awhile to actually lay our hands on this well disguised bison tube. Favourite from us. Lots of wildflowers out. Lovely area. TFTC

Apart from the ants we loved walking through the colourful bush.

[FTF] 01.10.17 kl 13:40 It is really good to end our 800km to station and back (3 days we did 1600km) with FTF. Most of the road I didn't have service and now in Dowerin I discovered that there is mee geocaches published. TFTH - First time visiting this well!

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